Are protests beneficial to detainees or harmful? The answer to this question lies at the center of the conflict between the various factions in the Lithuanian public.
Eliyahu Cohen, a yeshiva student from Ashdod who demonstrated yesterday in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak in protest of his arrest and imprisonment in Prison 4, is still detained - and will remain in prison until next Saturday. This is despite the many individuals who rushed to take credit for his "release.".
A senior official in Degel Hatorah claimed today that it has once again been proven that "the demonstrations are only harmful and bring no benefit." According to him, "if they had acted quietly in opposition to the military authorities, they would have achieved a more significant achievement.".
As proof of his statement, he presents a similar incident that happened yesterday with Dvir Suisa, a high school yeshiva student. Suisa, who, when he first reported to the draft office, signed that he wanted to enlist, later retracted his statement and announced that he was studying at the yeshiva.
Yesterday he was arrested - and released after quiet activity against the military authorities.
""If there were demonstrations and burning of garbage cans around him, he would spend the upcoming Shabbat in prison, maybe even celebrate the Seder there," says the source, who knows the people behind the young man's release.
We emphasize that this is not a young man who has repented, but a high school yeshiva student, whose other family members served in the IDF. A source familiar with the Suissa family says that his mother tried to convince her son to enlist, but he insisted on continuing to study Torah.
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